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The ryhme never said that he was an egg
In Alice and Wonderland it says that he’s an egg.
Some say that he was King Richard III. Some say that he was a siege engine used during the English Civil War.
The alter ego of Dumpty
Maybe there is an oral Humpty Dumpty tale that we don’t know about yet.
Democratic-Farm-Labor Senator from Minnesota in the 50’s and 60’s, ran for president in 1968, lost to Tricky Dick.
Personally I think the whole song is a little bit gruesome to be singing to children in the first place.
What I want to know is who thought that the king’s horses had a chance of repairing him in the first place.
Weren’t heart transplants assured something like 50yo, and now they’re permitted.
The King’s Horses were with it, obviously.
Ring around the rosy is not about the Black Death.
Ring around the rosie
Pocket full of posie
Ashes ashes
We all fall down
—Some internet sources say that it’s false. They are false.
“Ring around the rosie,
A pocket full of posies;
[one of the superstitious ways used by people in the Middle Ages to try and fend off the plague was to stuff their pockets with posies (flowers)]
Atischoo, atischoo,
[sneezing was also an early sign of the plague if it was a pneumonic plague; however, not all types of plague involved sneezing]
or, Ashes, ashes
[the dead were often cremated]
We all fall down.
[most of the people strickened with the plague died]”
Sewer History dot com…
But if you want more academic sources, search it in Google Books.
Check out: What Did I Just Say!?!: How New Insights Into Childhood Thinking Can Help …
By Denis Donovan, M.D., Deborah McIntyre, R.N.
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